Eric Dane plays a firefighter with ALS in NBC's Brilliant Minds, reflecting his own diagnosis while raising awareness about ...

Eric Dane, who portrayed a “McSteamy” Mark Sloan on “Grey’s Anatomy,” is making his “Brilliant Minds” debut as a patient with ...

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

A MUM who saw a chiropractor to ease her sore neck suffered five strokes – forcing her to relearn how to walk and quit work.

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Scientists at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, in collaboration with researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, have made a breakthrough in understanding why many cancer patients develop nerve ...

Clusters of mouse vagus nerve sensory cells reveal the presence of TRPV1, a molecular sensor that detects irritants, heat, and inflammation. A new HMS study reveals nerve cells with this sensor play a ...

In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the loss of any one of four RNA-binding proteins turns off a gene called UNC13A that needs to stay active for nerve cells to communicate with each other — with ...

One nerve cell type (yellow) of several hundred that ETH researchers have grown from stem cells in the laboratory (microscopy image). Credit: Hsiu-Chuan Lin and Malgorzata Santel / ETH Zurich ...

Nerve cells are not just nerve cells. Depending on how finely we distinguish, there are several hundred to several thousand different types of nerve cell in the human brain according to the latest ...

TOKYO — Doctors may eventually be able to tell whether your cells are aging prematurely without needles, blood tests, or expensive lab work. Japanese researchers have developed an experimental ...